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Aberdeen: Eastern Airways Lands with Faulty Engine Fire/Alarm


Pictured: AN Eastern Airways Saab 2000 in Manchester on August 29, 2009
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Contact photographer Stewart Andrew

What: Eastern Airways Saab 2000 en route from Bergen to Aberdeen
Where: Aberdeen
When: Feb 21st 2010
Who: 8 passengers and 3 crew
Why: A quarter hour before approach to Aberdeen, systems detected a fire in the left engine.

The crew shut the engine down and proceeded to land safely at Aberdeen with emergency crews on standby.

The shutdown was attributed to a faulty fire alarm.

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